mibuokami said:
Do you remember where you got the 36m from? I've only ever been able to find the total subscription numbers not gold by itself. I think they have over 50 million subscriber in total now. |
There were several threads about it. I made one too, I think.
2010: 12.5m subs http://news.techgenie.com/latest/12-5-million-subscribers-for-microsoft-xbox-live-gold/
The article also says that MS says "about half of total memberships are gold", meaning 26m regular.
late 2011: 35m total http://www.gizmofusion.com/2011/08/xbox-live-has-reached-35-million-subscribers/
late 2012: 46m total http://one8one.com/article619.php
Sometime in 2012, I believe Majornelson or one of those guys said 10% increases in xbl gold subscribers for the past two years. I once had a link for it, but cannot find it anymore. It's somewhere on vgc if you care to look. ie; google: site:vgchartz.com theprof00 xbl gold memberships
Then in 2013 april it's up to 50m.
Here's a link for video stats (which require xbl gold)
http://www.vg247.com/2013/09/20/42-of-xbox-live-subscribers-watch-30-hours-of-video-content-each-month/
This is late this past september.
I would say the number is something like 54m xbl accounts with 26m or so xbl gold, give or take a few million.
Regardless, the point is that xbl gold is roughly half or less than half.
